Soldier and elder brother of Lord Raglan.
From : "... in 1815 they {the Life Guards} were part of The Household Brigade at the Battle of Waterloo under Major-General Lord Edward Somerset." And the Life Guards are part of the Household Cavalry, the mounted regiment of which was based at Knightsbrige Barracks, now Hyde Park Barracks, since 1795. All of which explains why we think the "Somerset" bust on display at the Hyde Park Barracks is this Lord Somerset.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Lord Edward Somerset
These two must be Somerset and Raglan but which is which we can't tell you.
Employed at the Holloway bus/tram garage - Pemberton Gardens. Served and was killed in WW1.
William Jared was born on 24 May 1894 in Islington, London, the third of the five children of George Edward Jared (1865-1938) and Esther Sophia Jared, née Mitchell (1868-1938). His birth was regist...
Soldier. Born John George Pattison. He emigrated to Canada where he enlisted to fight in WW1. He was posted to France, and on the 10th April 1917 he fought in the battle of Vimy Ridge. The advance ...
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